Beyond the "Device as Portal": Meeting the Requirements of Wireless and Mobile Devices in the Legion Grid Computing System

  • Authors:
  • Brian Clarke;Marty Humphrey

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Grid computing is an emerging paradigm in which resources in multiple organizations are combined into a single, seamless computing environment. As the storage, processing, and networking capabilities of wireless and mobile devices continue to expand, there will soon be the ability to use such devices as first-class compute- and data-servers (albeit for restricted problem sizes). However, without the proper software architecture for Grid computing, such devices will continue to be only usable as Web portals to high-power backend servers. This paper describes the unique capabilities of the Legion Grid computing infrastructure that will directly support these next-generation, powerful devices as first-class entities.